Of the 2,895 entries, the winners of the Silhouette Portrait Machine are:

Amy (lostangel1995@)
Linda (walk9@)

All winners should have received an email with further instructions on claiming your prize.

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Update: The Gratitude Journals now completely out of stock — we sold many, many more than we expected to this Christmas season and won’t have another shipment in from the publisher until early next year. I’m so sorry for the inconvenience. You may still be able to find some stock at your local Christian bookstore still or online from Amazon.

Looking for a last-minute Christmas idea for some people on your list? Want to bless and impact your family and friends by encouraging them to take a little time each day to write down their blessings?

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And thank you so much for how you’ve celebrated with me this year as I’ve spread my wings and tried some new things — like creating this Blessings Journal. I’ve learned a lot and grown a lot this past year and am looking forward to what 2015 holds.

I’ll share more soon about my goals for 2015, what I learned through mistakes and struggles in 2014, and some {good} changes I’m making for 2015. In the mean time, I just wanted to say thank you so much for being on this adventure with me! I appreciate each and every one of you!

Welcome to the 5-Day Clean Your House for Christmas Challenge. Otherwise known as: Crystal really needs to deep clean her house and she needs the public accountability to get it done. Ahem.

{Thank you for humoring me. If your house is in great shape, please just skip over these posts. I may be the only one who has kind of let my housework and decluttering slide a bit the past few months.}

I feel like I need to apologize in advance for today’s assignment. Because we’re going there, oh yes we are…

Today’s assignment is to clean the kitchen.

{Cue the groans and people clicking away from this post as fast as possible in and effort to try to pretend you didn’t see that. :)}

Here’s my plan for this morning (feel free to follow it somewhat, if you find it helpful… or you can get a laugh out of how detailed I am!):

So, that’s my morning plan. I’m hopeful to have it all done before dinner time today — maybe even lunchtime if my morning goes perfect. Which never happens, but I can always dream that today might be the day!

I’ll take pictures and will post an update later today to let you know how it goes.

Want To Join Me?

Are you joining me? If so, what room(s) are you planning to tackle today and what’s your morning plan? Let us know in the comments. If you are blogging about it, I’ll have a link-up that you can link your post to in my post later today.

Welcome to the 5-Day Clean Your House for Christmas Challenge. Otherwise known as: Crystal really needs to deep clean her house and she needs the public accountability to get it done. Ahem.

{Thank you for humoring me. If your house is in great shape, please just skip over these posts. I may be the only one who has kind of let my housework and decluttering slide a bit the past few months.}

If your bedrooms are spotless and clutter-free, pick another area of your house that you’ve been putting off and tackle that today. Maybe the coat closet or the office or the storage room… er, maybe not the storage room unless you have a LOT of time and ambition!

Here’s my plan for this morning (feel free to follow it somewhat, if you find it helpful… or you can get a laugh out of how detailed I am!):

So, that’s my morning plan. I’m hopeful to have it all done before dinner time today — maybe even lunchtime if my morning goes perfect. Which never happens, but I can always dream that today might be the day!

I’ll take pictures and will post an update late afternoon/early evening to let you know how it goes.

Want To Join Me?

Are you joining me? If so, what room(s) are you planning to tackle today and what’s your morning plan? Let us know in the comments. If you are blogging about it, I’ll have a link-up that you can link your post to by late afternoon/early evening.

So we got back in town last Monday evening and stayed in town the entire rest of the week (which is the first week I’ve been home all week in quite a few weeks). And guess what? Even though we had out-of-town guests and lots of meetings and then most of us got sick with head colds, I got every single thing done on my goals list!!

It felt SO good to have a quiet weekend at home. I slept, read, we watched a few Christmas movies, and we hung out as a family. And it was incredibly relaxing and just what we needed.

I am grateful for the opportunities to travel and be stretched personally this past year, but I’m also thankful that we have a 5-week break from travels (except for Christmas travels). I forgot how much I enjoy quiet days at home!

10. Clean the house from top to bottom and blog about it (look for a post coming in just a bit with today’s assignment!)

How did you do on last week’s goals? What are your goals for this week? I’d love to have you share your progress on last week’s goals and your goals for this coming week in the comments. Of, if you’ve blogged about it, leave your direct link below. Let’s cheer each other on to live purposeful and productive lives! You can download a free customizable weekly goal-planning sheet here.